A billion songs have been written about it. Everyone’s searching for it, wanting it, craving it, and once they’ve found it, they’re doing everything they can to fall deeper into it, nourish it, and hold onto it… forever.

Sure, all you need is love, but any loving relationship also takes work to keep it healthy and strong. Spa Week’s Healthy Relationship Expert Andrea Syrtash, host of our LOVE Challenge: Commit to 15 minutes of Daily Date Talk, will tell you that it is definitely not always easy. Her latest book Cheat On Your Husband (With Your Husband) teaches valuable lessons about how to “date” your spouse to keep that spark alive. Start now — join the Challenge event on Facebook — and take in 10 of Andrea’s wisest pieces of advice for your love life.

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Last night we posted your Crystal Ball to What’s Hot in Spring 2012, a glamorous, cultured look at what to look forward to in the season ahead. Today we wanted to share with you Lifehacker’s awesomely helpful guide to getting the best bang for your buck on absolutely anything (well, almost anything – ahem), all year long. From patio furniture to Broadway tickets to digital cameras, this guide tells you exactly when your big purchases of the year are at their cheapest.

But they neglected to mention one thing – SPA TREATMENTS! That’s where we come in. Mark it down: The BEST TIME to go to the spa in 2012 is when treatments are just $50 A PIECE during National Spa Week®:

SPRING SPA WEEK: April 16-22 | FALL SPA WEEK: October 15-21

Make sure you’re signed up to get the best deals on spa in 2012 – full service treatments that normally cost between $75 and $500, for only $50. Since 2004 Spa Week’s mission has been for everyone to be able to experience the wellness lifestyle. This may not be your year for a new pool, gas grill or motorcycle, but this is your year for spa!

And here’s the link to Lifehacker’s guide to everything else.

Losing 122 pounds is like losing an entire person… and gaining an entirely new life.

We’re thrilled to introduce Spa Week Daily’s Celebrity Stylist and Weight Loss Expert, the ever-inspiring Kithe Brewster, who has styled everyone from Julianne Moore to Beyonce, and did indeed lose 122 pounds in 2011. His true passion is helping REAL women, so now he’s here to help YOU to do the same! We just announced Kithe’s Mirror Mirror Weight Loss Challenge, challenging you to embrace a full length mirror and that one item in your closet you WISH you fit into as your motivation live a healthy, fit life. Join in now!

Kithe is a man on the rise – he has many exciting projects in the works, including building a foundation called CURRY 4 COURAGE, to help in the fight against childhood and adolescent obesity. It’s named after AJ Curry, a gifted young music producer and film director who died of obesity this past November. Kithe also has a number of fashion projects in the works which we can’t reveal just yet… but follow this one! He’s recognized now as “Cynthia’s BFF on Real Housewives of Atlanta” but we’re excited to watch him explode – and inspire everyone he reaches. Starting now:

As we all search our souls for what our 2012 New Year’s Resolutions will be, I’d like you to first ask yourselves: how am I already fantastic? Don’t forget – you are! Over the years I’ve come to realize that my annual promise to lose 15 pounds has been as effective as that As Seen On TV Magic Bullet blender that I never took out of the box. Visions of me gymming it three times a week and having a four-pack by summer became laughable by February. Why was I so hard on myself? Why was THAT the ultimate goal? Are you doing the same thing?

Instead, make it a goal to learn to love yourself AS YOUR ARE – right now. No matter what. You are a living, breathing, beautiful creature. Feed that body well and nurture it with the exercise it deserves, but don’t pressure it into becoming something it’s not.

Part of loving yourself as you are means living in the moment. Stop rushing. What’s the hurry? You’re running late? Oh, me too, and that feeling of being in a rush is the WORST. So last year, the simple yet life-changing New Year’s Resolution I made and kept was:

Stop pressing that DOOR CLOSE button.

Why? I was tired of seeing New Yorkers (notably, me…) taking their frustration out on elevator buttons, followed by a sigh. Are you in such a rush that saving 5 seconds is going to affect your day? In most other countries, the Door Close button doesn’t exist. Also, some even say the Door Close button is a placebo and actually does nothing at all! (While I’m sure this is true in some elevators, after my one-year stint I’ve confirmed it actually does make the door close faster.)

But so what? Watching others slam down on the Door Close button in 2011 turned into my daily reminder to smile and slow down. It became a moment to acknowledge the art of patience. A reassurance that I didn’t want to be that person banging on the Door Close button (OR the person rushing along the cashier, OR the person stressed over the line at the bank) ever again. And because of me, a lot of people didn’t have to stand and wait for the next elevator. You’re welcome.

On a symbolic level, I’ve also spent those 5 seconds thinking about proverbial open doors, and how shutting doors can hinder unknown opportunity. Did amazing things come to me in 2011 because I kept all doors open? I’d like to think maybe!

So, I’ve lost approximately 17 minutes and 20 seconds in the 2011 year. (Average elevator delay = 5 seconds, average elevator rides alone per week where this happens = 4, times 52 weeks.) I don’t miss them at all, and in fact I would say I FOUND 17 minutes and 20 seconds. Seventeen minutes spent smiling, taking a sweet deep breaths, finding inner peace and remembering that life’s short, but not short enough to rush through elevator rides.

If elevators are part of your daily routine, will you add this one to your resolution list? Tell me below! It’s way easier to keep than losing 15 pounds.

Want to make this THE YEAR – what ever your resolution may be? Read 5 Steps to Rocking Your Resolution!

Resolution image via Gawker, who also has some good free advice about making that resolution stick for good.

It speaks volumes of Dashama, Spa Week’s Joyology Expert, that her Spa Week Daily Health Challenge (which starts Monday) requires you just to HUG PEOPLE! Have you RSVP’d to hug it out every day this holiday season? There’s no sweeter way to bring health and happiness to yourself and others than a nice, warm embrace. In the one-name ranks of Madonna and Rihanna, this warm, inspiring ball of love known as Dashama is an internationally known Yoga Teacher, Author, Healer and Healthy Lifestyle Coach. She’s the founder of the Global 30 Day Yoga Challenge, Journey to Joyful TV, Perfect 10 Lifestyle and Pranashama Yoga Institute; an innovator in the field of yoga, mind/body transformation and healing.

And speaking of transformation and healing, let’s begin right here with Dashama’s wise words to find your everyday journey to joyful.

Now, join the hug revolution!